Susan Stryker

Yes.

And in the Ordinary Man movie, Susan Stryker and other trans historians and thinkers, they're like, okay, when this book came out, they're like, we know she's going to get it wrong.

Like, we know she's going to mess this up.

She's not going to tell the story exactly right.

So-

... a long section where this trans historian, Susan Stryker, is talking about her scholarship to do with the Compton cafeteria riot.

Oh, uh-huh.

And, like, talking about devotion in the sense of being devoted to study and things like that and being devoted to, like, um, unearthing histories and disseminating them.

And you can read some really amazing ...

You can watch a amazing film by, uh, Dr. Susan Stryker called Screaming Queens.

It's widely available.

I encourage you to check it out.

Now, this is interesting because it's also three years before the Stonewall Riots.

So we can start to see kind of the foundation for some of the preceding riots happening across the United States.

Now, what's interesting about this is that thanks to the work of Susan Stryker, in 2005 was when the documentary Screaming Queens came out, and then with that rise in consciousness around this particular uprising, in 2006 a historical marker was designated at the site of Compton's Cafeteria.

And then it took about 10 years to start to get more preservation work done, and this was done through a variety of activists, um, community organizers working to encourage not just having a marker, but actually preserving the space.

You might just hear us read it out on the show.

And to prove it, after listening to our recent episode with historian Susan Stryker, Alexandra Billings wrote on Instagram, "'Brilliant.

Thank you for this.

I feel like I just took a huge breath.'" This episode of the TransLash podcast was produced by TransLash Media.